Bartolo Colon, deemed 'not ready for the start of the season' by our resident baseball execs, has already shut out the Minnesota Double-Rugs through 6 innings - a performance superior to ANYONE on the entire PR Machine (name change -formerly, "Indians") roster in five games.

Are you kidding me. Posts like this are nothing more than a F-You to people who actual are fans. Posting shit like this 5 games into a season b/c he's had one good game is just moronic. Colon would have gotten the same pessimism that Pavano did had the Indians decided to give him the chance and now you come along being a Monday morning QB after ONE good start....awesome, just awesome.

OSU819903 wrote:Are you kidding me. Posts like this are nothing more than a F-You to people who actual are fans. Posting shit like this 5 games into a season b/c he's had one good game is just moronic. Colon would have gotten the same pessimism that Pavano did had the Indians decided to give him the chance and now you come along being a Monday morning QB after ONE good start....awesome, just awesome.

AGREED.

This fat lard has a good game? Great. Still wouldnt have gotten him at the time.

AGoodPerson wrote:Bartolo Colon, deemed 'not ready for the start of the season' by our resident baseball execs, has already shut out the Minnesota Double-Rugs through 6 innings - a performance superior to ANYONE on the entire PR Machine (name change -formerly, "Indians") roster in five games.

(and for less money)

As the great Winston Wolf said, "Let's not start suckin' out di&%s just yet."

You do realize, that if the season required Bart Colon to pitch 10 games, 32 teams would have been after him.

He made it thru a game, great. Keep pattin' yourself on the back thru 20 starts, and then you can proceed to blowing yourself.

Christ on a pony in this baseball area. DeRosa will never hit, can Willis, who do we deal at the deadline, 30 teams were stupid for passing on Colon based on one start.

AGoodPerson wrote:Bartolo Colon, deemed 'not ready for the start of the season' by our resident baseball execs, has already shut out the Minnesota Double-Rugs through 6 innings - a performance superior to ANYONE on the entire PR Machine (name change -formerly, "Indians") roster in five games.

(and for less money)

You forgot to throw in there how great Luke Scott, Jeremy Guthrie, Brandon Phillips, Kevin Kouzmanoff and the rest of the guys we got rid of are doing to really make this an truly obnoxious thread.

" No big stars on the team is by design. "We can't afford to have the inefficiencies, even for a great talent. We need to function as efficiently as possible in our clubhouse, and that means guys have to know what it means to be a good teammate. We don't want to waste the energy on dealing with all those distractions. Besides, we value character over talent here in Cleveland---Mark Shapiro

Reminds me that Roger Maris was a Tribe signee. And Russell Branyan. Never know how great these guys will be when you turn 'em loose. Damn the front office.

Ehh, at least we're off the Ryan Church/Jeremy Guthrie train today. No one's quoting those numbers this season for some odd reason.

Question: why do we put the OPS number in there when stats are quoted? Can't people add the OBP and SLG? Is it a nod to those too damn dumb or just courtesy? Always puzzled me. That and the continued popularity of 'ER' after the original cast left.

Keeping in mind that Colon is still making more money than probably everyone here, it must be difficult for a professional athlete who was once considered an elite talent to pitch after that mojo is gone. In his prime he could pretty much throw that fastball past anyone, but now it's an upper 80s meat ball.

When a skinny stick like Valbuena takes you yard, convincingly, you know that you're past the downward slide. It was painful to watch him pitch.

WiscTribeFan wrote:Keeping in mind that Colon is still making more money than probably everyone here, it must be difficult for a professional athlete who was once considered an elite talent to pitch after that mojo is gone. In his prime he could pretty much throw that fastball past anyone, but now it's an upper 80s meat ball.

When a skinny stick like Valbuena takes you yard, convincingly, you know that you're past the downward slide. It was painful to watch him pitch.

This is why it is better to figure out when to bow out gracefully, rather than be forced into retirement because you suck so bad.

WiscTribeFan wrote:Keeping in mind that Colon is still making more money than probably everyone here, it must be difficult for a professional athlete who was once considered an elite talent to pitch after that mojo is gone. In his prime he could pretty much throw that fastball past anyone, but now it's an upper 80s meat ball.

When a skinny stick like Valbuena takes you yard, convincingly, you know that you're past the downward slide. It was painful to watch him pitch.

This is why it is better to figure out when to bow out gracefully, rather than be forced into retirement because you suck so bad.

WiscTribeFan wrote:Keeping in mind that Colon is still making more money than probably everyone here, it must be difficult for a professional athlete who was once considered an elite talent to pitch after that mojo is gone. In his prime he could pretty much throw that fastball past anyone, but now it's an upper 80s meat ball.

When a skinny stick like Valbuena takes you yard, convincingly, you know that you're past the downward slide. It was painful to watch him pitch.

This is why it is better to figure out when to bow out gracefully, rather than be forced into retirement because you suck so bad.